# Hibberd 2025: Is the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Alien Technology?

> Adam Hibberd, Adam Crowl, Abraham Loeb, 2025. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The artificial hypothesis for 3I, as its authors stated it.

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# Is the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Alien Technology?

Adam Hibberd, Adam Crowl, Abraham Loeb, 2025. _arXiv_.

Described by its authors as "largely a pedagogical exercise": notes 3I's close passes to Venus, Mars and Jupiter and its low retrograde inclination, hypothesises a technological and possibly hostile origin, and predicts what manoeuvres such an object would make near perihelion. Posted 16 July 2025.

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The artificial hypothesis for 3I, as its authors stated it.

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Hibberd, A., Crowl, A., & Loeb, A. (2025). Is the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Alien Technology?. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12213
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